Finger glandes

[Anonymous]

Does anyone have a photo of the glandes, molded from a finger pushed into sand, found at Velsen ?<br>
Thanks <p></p><i></i>

[Vincula]

No photo. Will a drawing do?<br>
<img src="http://members.aol.com/romanwriter1/SlingBullets.jpg" style="border:0;"/><br>
(A.V.A.J. Bosman's copyright) <p></p><i></i>

[Anonymous]

Vincula, you are the man!!<br>
Not only the finger but more!<br>
Is that image out of a book?<br>
I'm a sling nut (go to slinging.org) and make my own ammo.<br>
Thanks again!<br>
Johnny <p></p><i></i>

[Anonymous]

Vincula,<br>
Do you have any more info on glandes or slingers in general?<br>
Thanks<br>
Johnny <p></p><i></i>

[Mithras]

Hi Johnny,<br>
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I'm a mad slinger as well, see a few words and images here: www.geocities.com/zozergames/sling.html<br>
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Both me and my son get down to the beach to sling. I've just made myself a nice leather Roman sling, but I still use beach pebbles (an infinite supply!).<br>
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I'd love to make some lead bullets ... I can get a hold of some lead - I must try it!!!!! At Arbeia, Quinta have experimented making lead glandes using both sand and clay moulds. I want to try slinging some.<br>
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BTW: which method do you prefer? What kind of ranges do you get? What's your sling like?<br>
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Its great to find a fellow slinging nut! <p>Paul Elliott<br>
<br>
<strong>Heroes of Delphi</strong> - Classical Greece gone D20<br>
<strong>Zenobia</strong> - Fantasy RPG in the Eastern Roman Empire<br>
<strong>Warlords of Alexander</strong> - Kingdoms in conflict for the ruins of Alexander's Empire<br>
<br>
www.geocities.com/mithrapolis/games.html</p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://b30.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=mithras@romanarmytalk>Mithras</A> at: 4/22/04 10:47 pm<br></i>

[Vincula]

Quote:</em></strong><hr>Vincula, you are the man!!<hr><br>
Eh, hmmm, thanks ... never been called <strong>that</strong> before<br>
The drawing is from Bosman's paper in <em>JRMES</em> 6 (1995).<br>
I guess you know Stiebel's paper in <em>JRMES</em> 8 (1997)? <p></p><i></i>

[Hibernicus]

We're suppossed to cast some more this weekend.. if all goes as planned we'll post some pics.<br>
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Hibernicus<br>
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LEG IX HSPA <p></p><i></i>

[Anonymous]

Vincula! I feel like an idiot!<br>
I just realized you are a woman!<br>
I'm so sorry!!<br>
Anyway-You are the Lady!!<br>
Thanks for your efforts!<br>
<br>
I braid my slings out of sisal twine. Then I sew on a leather pocket and finger cover around the finger loop. I generally sling for accuracy, not distance. At 35 yards, I can hit a 3ft by 3ft target with no problem. I also sling at 100 yards but with less accurate hits. I make concrete glandes out of plastic jello egg molds, the type you buy at grocery stores. Also, I gather round stones down at the creek. I sling my stones with a helicopter/overhand cast(is that confusing?). Please visit the website:www.slinging.org/ You will get kick out of it!<br>
Johnny <p></p><i></i>

[Hibernicus]

You might try jute.. stronger than sisal, less coarse.<br>
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We get great distance with an underhand cast, sort of like pitching a softball. When we step and cast at the same time we get greater distance. With minimal training, 150 - 200 yards with an 1.25" stone is easy.<br>
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We're more accurate with an overhand cast, much like pitching a baseball.<br>
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No twirling though.<br>
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I've been experimenting with a side arm cast.. lots of power and easy to do while wearing a segmentata.... takes up a lot of room though.. slingers must stand farther apart and single rank.<br>
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Hibernicus<br>
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[Anonymous]

I've tried Jute before. It just wears out too quickly. Sisal seems to "release" the stone smoother. Maybe it's just me! Leather thongs are just to heavy. Heaven help you if it gets wet! Talk about a limp rag! I've got alot of lead balls(black powder pistols, civil war reenactor) that I would like to melt down for glandes. Do you folks use lead?<br>
Johnny <p></p><i></i>

[Hibernicus]

Lead.. oh yeah baby!<br>
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Our supply is pushing 100lbs right now, diving weights, sinkers, sheathing, scrap.... the pile of cast bullets is growing though for show .... I hate slinging lead bullets.. they disappear... lost in the grass, or dirt<br>
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Slilng and a pouch of bullets is standard issue for Miles in Legio IX Hispana<br>
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Try golfballs.. much easier to find and recover!<br>
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Hibernicus<br>
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[D B Campbell]

Leather thongs are just too heavy.

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Have you tried attaching a leather pouch to a hemp thong? I wonder how this would perform?<br>
A leather pouch-like, lozenge-shaped artefact was found at Melandra in 1973, and interpreted as the central part of a sling.<br>
(Of course, the alternative explanation, that it was a Roman eye-patch, may be correct!) <p></p><i></i>

[aitor iriarte]

Hi Duncan,<br>
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Glad to see that you've joined us!<br>
<br>
Aitor<br>
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P.S. Did you get your photo from Valencia? <p></p><i></i>

[Anonymous]

Leather pouches work fine stitched to a fiber thong. I have several types of "pouches". One type fully cups the stone, the other is split. When I first started slinging, I would cast stones at a creek, if the leather thongs got wet, it was like casting with a limp rag! Horrible! Then I read where the Balearics would braid their slings using plant fibers, black rush I think, and so I tried jute and sisal. <p></p><i></i>

[Matthew Amt]

Avete!<br>
I made a few of those finger-tip bullets myself, plus a couple dozen regular ones in a wood mold. Photo here:<br>
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www.larp.com/legioxx/bullets.jpg<br>
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A little more description on the Legio XX Photos page, about halfway down the page:<br>
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www.larp.com/legioxx/photos.html<br>
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The only slinging I've done, though, is with black walnuts for ammo--there was handy tree at the edge of the field!<br>
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Thanks for the slinging URLs, those will be handy when other folks ask me about this.<br>
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Valete,<br>
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Matthew/Quintus, Legio XX <p></p><i></i>